Simeon's Super Maths!

Today we were finding the inverse of tricky sums. The inverse is like the opposite. 

The inverse of addition is subtraction and the inverse of division is multiplication. 

Simeon worked extremely hard and completed lots of sums using inverse. He worked efficiently, didn't chat and put his hand up when he wanted his work checked! I'm sure you'll all agree that Simeon's work is beautifully presented too! 

Stone Age Big Writing!

For Big Writing we were transported back in time to the Stone Age! We had to write a letter home telling our friends or family what we could see, smell, taste, hear and feel.

We discussed our ideas and had to think back to our topic on the Stone age to help us!

Here is Finley, Kaia and Meadow's letter. They worked in a group with Miss Groves sharing ideas before writing.

Blog written by Sienna.

Light and shadow!

Our new science topic is light and shadow.

Today we learnt that a shadow is made when an object blocks a light source.
We went out into the playground with our shadows and tried to get away from them! It wasn't easy!
We found 2 ways of getting away from your shadow.
1) To hide in a shadowy place or in someone else's shadow.
2) Jump up high to get away from our shadow!

Here are some pictures of us getting away from our shadow

We then came inside and discussed what would happen to our shadow as the sun moves throughout the day.  We think that our shadow will move even if we stand in the same place! 

We will investigate that next lesson! 

Here is a photo of Kaia's diagram and her thought shower of everything she knows and what Kaia would like to find out during our topic. 

Year 3 – 4 Easter Haiku’s

Rough hands seized Jesus

Crown of thorns placed on his head

Carrying a cross

Weary, tired and sad

Veronica wipes his face

Everyone watching

Crowned King of the Jews

Jesus crucified slowly

Nails through his cold hands

In the tomb post death

Resurrection of Jesus

This is Holy week

By Meadow

Thursday was the day

They all had the last supper

Jesus said goodbye

Jesus prayed on the day

But then he got arrested

Nailed to a cross

He was left to die

He refused to drink the wine

They made fun of him

Taken off the cross

Soldiers put him in a tomb

He rose from the dead

By Finley

Jesus helped the world

He raised people from the dead

The leaders were so angry

To the cross he went

People visited all day

He was crucified

Can you believe it?

He was nailed to the cross

He dies on the cross

King of Israel

Really was the son of God

Jesus is alive

By Kaia

To support their learning about non-chronological reports Year 3- 4 visited the exciting world of Harry Potter to see some of the creatures and beasts.

We spent the day exploring the magical set in Leavesden learning how to cast a spell as well as how some of the creatures and were  made. 

Below are just a few of the images taken on the day. We were also celebrating Red nose day so our outfits were an interesting mixture of red and our uniform.

 On arrival in the Great Hall

 Harry's first bedroom

Learning how to cast a spell

Grace wearing the sorting hat

 Sonny and Hayden choosing a wand.

A selection of masks.

About to enter the gates of Hogworts.

 Hayden with one of Harry's costumes.

More spell creators

Year 3 -4 have been learning how to divide.

To help us understand how to do this we used chocolate raisins.

The children had to divide their raisins into different groups and share them equally.


Can you work out the number sentences from the pictures below?

The first image has 40 raisins divided into two groups.

Inverted commas

Today we were writing direct speech using inverted commas.

We discussed the vocabulary needed and then had a go at writing our own!

Here are some tips to remember when writing direct speech:

Open your inverted commas and write your speech, remember it must start with a capital letter!

Then you must remember to include any punctuation after your sentence. This could be a question mark, explanation mark or a full stop.

Then you must close your inverted commas.

Here is an example.

"Good morning! How are you?"